2/26/21: FADE TO BLACK HISTORY W/ JOSEPH GREEN
The Justice Department ultimately won a conviction against Garvey on a dubious mail fraud charge in 1923. Meanwhile, white vigilantes, police and soldiers targeted Black communities with violence during this period, which included the Red Summer of 1919, the Tulsa massacre of 1921 and scores of lynching’s, did not receive the same focused attention from Hoover’s agents. The FBI used similar tactics to disrupt, discredit and neutralize leaders of the […]